• Concerns and Skepticism Around 21st Century Cures Act

    Washington Post | While some measures in the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act, like increased NIH funding, have attracted widespread praise, other measures threaten to weaken the safety and efficacy evidence needed for drugs to pass muster with the FDA.

    Jul 10, 2015

  • Do No Harm

    Vox | An investigation into heart line catheter infections reveals the harm analysis strategies that let hospitals prevent deadly medical errors.

    Jul 9, 2015

  • Hospital ICUs Mine Big Data in Push for Better Outcomes

    WSJ | Leading hospitals such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore look for clues in the wealth of information from past cases.

    Jul 9, 2015

  • Consulting Merger Creates Certara Strategic Consulting

    Clinical Informatics News | Certara has merged its consulting group, Pharsight Consulting Services (PCS), with Quantitative Solutions, a global pharmacometrics consulting company headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. forming Certara Strategic Consulting. Jaap Mandema, former CEO of Quantitative Soutions, will serve as the new head of Certara Strategic Consulting. Financial details were not disclosed.

    Jul 8, 2015

  • UCSD Asks Court to Restore Custody and Control of Alzheimer’s Data

    Xconomy | In the recent donnybrook between UC San Diego and the University of Southern California, the 24-year old Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study is what's at stake.

    Jul 8, 2015

  • World Health Organization Scolds Indian Company for Clinical Trial Violations

    WSJ | Yet another contract research organization in India is being scolded for its handling of clinical trial records.

    Jul 7, 2015

  • Social Media Insights Company Launches App for Social Listening

    Clinical Informatics News | Treato, a social media insights company that describes itself as the world’s largest “patient voice” source, has announced it will apply its big data infrastructure and technology to social media networks, giving patients a platform to discuss treatments and allowing the medical and business communities to gauge real-time patient attitudes, view social trends, and gain insights into their—and their competitors’—advertisements and products.

    Jul 6, 2015

  • Sequenced at Birth

    MIT Technology Review | BabySeq, a study examining the health outcomes of sequencing newborns' genomes, has enrolled its first four subjects at Boston hospitals.

    Jul 2, 2015

  • June Clinical News and Product Briefs

    Clinical Informatics News | Clinical news and product briefs from around the industry, including a host of new trial management solutions unveiled at DIA 2015.

    Jul 1, 2015

  • IMS Health to Acquire ViS Research

    Clinical Informatics News Brief | IMS Health tweeted out news of its acquisition of ViS Research last week during the DIA annual meeting. 

    Jun 24, 2015

  • A Bill Would Prevent Drug Makers From Frustrating Generic Rivals

    WSJ | A pair of lawmakers has reintroduced a bill designed to end a practice that generic drug makers complain is used by brand-name counterparts to thwart competition.

    Jun 23, 2015

  • New Board Chairman Jeffrey Kasher Bringing Speed to DrugDev

    Clinical Informatics News | DrugDev, a provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical trials, has tapped Jeffrey Kasher, Ph.D., as Chairman of the Advisory Board.  

    Jun 22, 2015

  • Telemedicine Study Looks at Quality of Care for Parkinson’s Patients

    Clinical Informatics News | The National Parkinson Foundation and University of Rochester researchers are collaborating on a year-long study comparing the efficacy of telemedicine to in-person community care and updating the term "house call" for the 21st century.

    Jun 18, 2015

  • Why Hasn't Big Data Come to the Rescue in Clinical Data Unification?

    Clinical Informatics News | Contributed Commentary | The cost-to-value equation for standardizing clinical data is broken. Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars annually, and substantially delay products’ time to market, sending clinical data to contractors for preparation and integration before analysis. A complete view of all available clinical data would be incredibly useful for improving clinical analytics, simplifying cross-study comparisons, speeding future trials, and data mining for new indications. 

    Jun 17, 2015

  • Mobile Data Collection’s Role in the Clinical Trial of the Future

    mobihealthnews | Craig Lipset talks about the mobile clinical trial that failed, why, and what we can do moving forward.

    Jun 17, 2015